Flow Mastering Suite $15/month PC MAC

Mastering your music just got as easy or as complex as you want. But, Andy Jones asks, is it worth yet another monthly subscription?

- Andy Jones

Mastering your music used to be a dark art. You’d send it off to experts in white coats who would scratch their chins, and send it through large pieces of black outboard gear. They would EQ this, wibble that, and transmute the other. Your music would then sound about 10% better, and you’d pay them a few hundred quid for whatever they did, no questions asked.

Luckily things have changed. The art of mastering is now either so transparent that anyone can do it, or, more likely, we just get AI (as in iZotope), or an increasing number of decreasingly expensive plugins to do it for us.

No questions asked. Softube has another solution, though, and it could be the one for those of us who want to master our music with ease but also – in order to rid of that niggling imposter syndrome – learn a little about how it’s done along the way.

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